Upgrade

I hate upgrading software. I try to avoid it. Upgrading is a process with many potential pitfalls. Over the years I think I have experienced many of them. Let's face it, my copy of Photoshop CS2 worked the day before CS3 was introduced so it will work just as well the day after.

Unfortunately there always does come a time when upgrading cannot be put off any longer. Earlier this week I did install Photoshop CS3. The upgrade went well and I had it up and running straight away - after a 200MB download of updates.

But it broke my colour mangement. I didn't know until after the installation was complete that Adobe Gamma is no longer included in the package. It maybe a fairly basic colour management tool, but it has served me well over several generations of Photoshop. So now I have to do what I should have done ages ago, buy a hardware colour management tool.

So, from uninstalling the previous version to being up productive on the upgraded version will take several days. Yet another pitfall on the upgrade trail.

Happily, installing the Pantone Huey that I sellected to take care of my monitor calibration was very easy and took less than 10 minutes all told. I am confident that my colour management will now be better than even. So maybe the pitfalls will end up being beneficial. 
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